The Opelousas courier., 1887-06-18
INVENTORS
Evidence OF Their Genius in
the Patent Office.
Some Important Inventions Due to Pemi-
nine Skill and Ingenuity.

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The world has not given woman du'
credit for her inventive faculties. Few
) persons realize what an important role
she is playing in the designing of nu-
mcrous articles, use u! as well as orna-
mental. The records of the patent Of
fee show that fully nineteen hundred
patents are claimed by m Moreover
not a small number of the patents grant
cd to men arc really for ingenious de.
vices and ideas that have originated in a
feminine brain. The women of New
York have been granted more patents
than their sisters in any other state. The
women of Massachusetts,, Ohio, Indiana
and Wisconsin rank next in order. In
machinery women have done much. Al
most daily improvements in
sewing machines come from
her brains. In the model
room of the patent Office, nearly side by
side with Elias Howe's machine, is one
made by a Miss RoscnthaI. 1t is a handy
little contrivance which cln be put in a
lady's pocket and screwed on TO any or
binary table. 1t is so dainty it looks fit
for the work room of a fairy. 1t will be
n boon to persons travelling, where it is
impossible to take a large machine. Ma
chin!sts pronounce it practically perfect
in construction, but it has not yet been
put upon the market.
The first submarine telescope was the
production of Mrs. Sarah B. Mather, of
New York. Mrs. Montgomery shows q
section of a war vessel provided with a
series of iron Plates s. constructed as to
resist shot and shell. There is also in
the model room an engine of offense as
well as defense in the shape of a breech-
loading gun credited to Miss Ruth
Goshan. Among the moro peaceful in-
ventions by women are a coupling pin and
an improved railway for street cars. A
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Bcaseley. An appl ance for raising
sunken vessels has been patented by
Mrs. fancy, Of Pennsylvania. She has
also contrived a syphon propeller pump.
Mrs. Frackelton, of Milwaukee, claims
to have made 200 women self-supporting
by means OF a useful little portable kiln
for firing decorated china. This can be
attached to any gas pipe and is an i'm
provement in the usual method of heat
Ing, affording q much more equablo
temperament. Mss Mary Broughton, of
New York, discovered o new method of
forming air chambers of dental plates in
teeth. Miss Amelia Bird de-
sired to make a noise in the world. and {
her genius soared to steam whistles.
Caroline Brooks, of Arkansas, has
patented some l~ubricating moulds in
Mrs. Brooks will be remembered
the butter artist at the Centennial. her :
lovely creation of Iolanthe attracting
much attention. She now has a studio
n New York.
Mrs. Sarah Ames, of Massachusetts,.
the bust of Abraham Lincoln.
what the patent right consists does 4
lot clearly appear, as artists generally
such things creations rather than
INVENTIONS. Mrs. Cornelia Beaufort of Ohio.
las a patent Iife-b lat to her credit. Mrs.
j. Coston has been very success q
III with her pyrotechnic night signals.
'he is an example of what pluck and {
perseverance can do. AZ the death Of
Ter husband his papcrs were in q chaotic !,
ondition and his designs not fully per- :
ected. Unaided, she brought them to-
point where they were practically va,s {
abe and she remained almost ten wears
1troducing them in the various FOREIGN
orts. She has been rewarded for her :
perseverance by O fortune. Among the n
ueer inventions Is an instrument for i
facial symmetry, by Mrs. ~
amy Batchelder, Of Massachusetts. re-.
he numerous patents granted to women mi
'ciude fre-eseapes, dust-brushes, baby
'nders, devices for killing mosquitoes :
other insects. window washers.
love-fasteners, fooi-preservers, cow =
ilkers, dish-washers, washing achines.
'okingg-stoyes, eorpsc-preservers, bus
8, face lotions, and all kinds of gar
ents.-[Naw YORK World. A